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She may be on to something with the line about firearms as a fashion accessory to get men's attention. How many guys have a crush on Jessie Abbate? On the other hand, that probably has less to do with simply wearing the gun and more to do with ability.

Another pissant attempt to divide and conquer, courtesy of the pro-defenseless-death, anti-liberty crowd. The anti-liberty crowd is still paying for Jim Zumbo. (In retrospect we should probably thank him.) Three years after being broad-stroked as terrorists, the wagons are still circled.

Be sure to try and dodge the diarrheal hyperbole spraying out of that piece. Yeah, they're trying to "force" open carry on all of us. Why, just last week I was strolling down the street when two burly gentlemen jumped out of a gun-racked Ford F-150, tackled me, and forced me to wear a holster. They even carved a backwards "N" on my face, (for "NRA".)

They were all like, "Ay! We don' take kindleh to yor type 'round he-ah."

I fail to see where Open Carry is being forced on anyone: If you don't want to carry openly or otherwise, DON'T. It ain't like anybody said you MUST Carry!

I understand her stripe of twit, though: it's the same deal with the religion thing: It is "Freedom OF", as opposed to "Freedom FROM"... she does not care if (at least publicly) if you have guns or are a Jesus Freak or worship your Flying Spaghetti Monster- she just does not want to SEE it in public, because if she does not see it, it's not really there....

Mee thinks this dumb broad has watched too much Lifetime, regardless, how does being a TV Critic warrant a knowledge of gun culture? Maybe she can do an expose on high speed car chases or Brangelina's new digs in Maui after she solves the age old problem of somebody going to Starbucks with their heater.

I heard about the column in another blog, but then read it fully in the WSJ and had to nod in agreement. The author is most assuredly NOT anti-gun nor hoplophobic. She is, however, pointing out that the cause of defense of the Second Amendment is not enhanced by the open carry displays. I can't disagree.

There is much threatened with regard to gun rights, but we're up to 39 "shall issue" CCW states right now because gun owners have demonstrated responsibility and maturity. Strapping the hogleg on and dampening the panties of the libs might be momentarily rewarding but it gives them ammunition (no pun intended) for their oppression.

At some point open carry might be significant, but as long as I can carry concealed, defend myself and buy both guns and ammo in this country I feel no need to flaunt. The fight is better waged on another front.

First, as far as the parts of the U. S. you're referring to, sorry, even girls can have guns.

Second, maybe some parts of the world would be better if every girl DID have a gun. I'm thinking particularly of the honor killing, slave trading, and prostitute trafficking bits.

And every single place where a woman is going to be murdered, raped, or beaten into the hospital today.

There are three or four hundred of those places right in your own country. JUST TODAY.

But then, most of those are places where poor and dark people go. Very few of them are the Chili's or Starbucks or Whole Foods you frequent, at least during working hours.

Sure, a waitress or shelf stocker gets raped by an assistant manager every now and then. But it's in the back room. So it's not YOUR problem.

If she had a gun, it might be! The bullet might go through him and hit you!

Funny how you expert journalists never go to the E. R. and ask women with broken jaws or beaten children about this issue. But making jokes about pink guns is lots easier and more amusing than thinking about that, isn't it?

If you thought about the blood on your own sidewalks, you might have to face it that you allow predators to continue to prey. Not many little cocktail party bons mots there.

Thank you Staghounds for a slant I overlooked. But with regard to the "change the activity..." exercise. It is a reasonable approach to take. Let's look at free speech for example. I can pepper my dialogue vividly with crude four letter obscenity. In fact, I can emulate the typical American high school student and resort almost exclusively to one Anglo-Saxon word that serves as noun, verb, adjective, conjunction and all the other parts of speech. I can, under the First Amendment, but I rationally choose not to. I can also freely yell "fire" in a crowded theater despite that familiar but incorrect caution, but I choose wisely not to.

I say continue to support and encourage open carry rallies and to open carry while going about daily activities until the sight of a firearm on someone's hip or slung over their shoulder is no bigger a deal than it was when I took my hunting rifles, shotguns and Ruger pistol to school with me every day in the 70"s. Even when forced integration was instituted, nobody ran out to their vehicles (at least in our area), retrieved their firearms and started shooting. Give me a break!